The poster lies. This movie isn't scary. Unless you're allergic to red food coloring or Caro syrup. Then I imagine it's terrifying. The original Evil Dead is a genuine cult classic and this remake was very polarizing. I wasn't going to see it but I heard good things and, well, it was free.
Here's the thing: Even though it's a classic, The Evil Dead (1981) is not a good horror movie. That's why it's achieved cult status. This movie is how The Evil Dead should have been, if it had been made with a real budget and real technology. You sacrifice a lot, okay all, of the charm in order to have a gore-filled demonic-possession movie. And that's not a bad thing. Because The Evil Dead was made first. No one can take that experience away from you. You can treasure every unintentionally hilarious moment. If this film had been made first, we would never have had Army of Darkness and the world would have been a worse place. This is the alternate future.
Five friends gather at a remote cabin in order to help Mia (Jane Levy) quit her drug addiction cold turkey. Once there, however, strange things begin to happen as soon as they uncover an odd book from the basement. Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) reads from the book and unleashes a demonic force.
Christy thought it was obscenely gory and hated how over-the-top it was. I wouldn't put it on my Christmas list, but I thought it was an interesting experiment. It's not often that you get to part the veils and see what might have been.
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